Michael Kearns

Michael Kearns

Birth : 1950-01-08, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

History

Michael Kearns (born January 8, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American actor, writer, director, teacher, producer, and activist. He is noted for being one of the first openly gay actors, and after an announcement on Entertainment Tonight in 1991, the first openly HIV-positive actor in Hollywood.

Profile

Michael Kearns

Movies

The Perfect Gentleman
Charles
Jonathan is poised to marry the daughter of a wealthy tycoon. The couple appears picture perfect, until the eve of their engagement party, when an unexpected guest threatens to destroy Jonathan's plans for the future.
A Mother's Prayer
Buddy
Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.
And the Band Played On
Cleve
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Body Double
Male Porn Star
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.
Dorothy and Alan at Norma Place
Jack Perkins
In 1963, living a routine life on Norma Place in Los Angeles, recluse writer Dorothy Parker and bisexual husband Alan Campbell recall their often-rocky relationship, started thirty years earlier.
L.A. Tool & Die
Jim
Hank follows the man of his dreams across the country from the El Paso Wrecking Corp. to L.A. Tool & Die.
Silent No More
Pat Rocco's fictionalized document of the 1977 Christopher Street West carnival and parade.